Gheorghe and Eugenia Popescu-Judetz collection, 1885-2010

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Title	Gheorghe and Eugenia Popescu-Judetz collection, 1885-2010
Inclusive Dates	1885-2010
Bulk Dates	(bulk 1938-1972)
Call No.	AFC 1990/022
Collector	Popescu-Judetz, Gheorghe, 1911-1972
Collector	Popescu-Judetz, Eugenia
Extent	20069 items.
Extent (Manuscripts)	23 linear ft. (57 boxes)
Extent (Sound Recordings)	48 sound tape reels : analog, mono. ; 5 in.
Extent (Sound Recordings)	9 sound cassettes : analog.
Extent (Graphic Materials)	100 photographic prints : b&w.
Extent (Graphic Materials)	1 photographic print : col.
Extent (Moving Images)	1 film reel of 1 (100 ft.) : si., b&w ; 8 mm.
Extent (Moving Images)	1 film reel of 1 (55 ft.) : si., b&w ; 8 mm.
Extent (Moving Images)	1 film reel of 1 (86 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
Extent (Moving Images)	5 videocassettes of 5 (Hi-8) : sd., col. ; 8 mm.
Extent (Artifacts)	1 plaque.
Language	Manuscripts in Romanian and English; some programs also in French and German. Sound recordings in Romanian and Turkish.
Location	American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af015006
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2004695180
Summary	An ethnographic field collection of manuscript materials, graphic images, sound recordings, and moving images that document, for the most part, Romanian folk dance and music as well as costume, ritual, and customs. Music arrangements, choreographic diagrams, photographs, and programs document activities of the state dance companies, the Ciocîrlia and Perinitza Ensembles. Oral history interviews with the donor recorded in 1995 complement the materials. Manuscript material includes music arrangements, music transcriptions, dance notation, field notes, choreographic diagrams, ethnographies, dance indexes, analyses of meter and rhythm, and maps of dance distribution. Collection includes more than 2,000 notated folk dance variants, more than 3,200 audio-recorded melodies and approximately 4,000 notated dance melodies. The dance notation in this collection is a unique form developed by Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz to record Romanian folk dance.